invectiver
\ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.ve\
The verdict
“invectiver” is uncommon French (frequency #79,427 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,427
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apostropher par des invectives ; injurier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-invectiver · invectiver · French
invectiver · rank #79,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,427
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inutilisée
Nearest frequency peer: inutilisée (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « invectiver »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- introduise
introduise
20,578 corpus weight
- intéressera…
intéresseraient
20,577 corpus weight
- inutilisée
inutilisée
20,575 corpus weight
- invectiver
invectiver
20,574 corpus weight
- inégalitair…
inégalitaires
20,573 corpus weight
- IPP
IPP
20,572 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « invectiver » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | invectiver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.ve\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « invectiver » en français
Rare enough to double-check
invectiver is uncommon French at frequency #79,427 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Apostropher par des invectives ; injurier.".
invectiver has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is invectiver, spelled I-N-V-E-C-T-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Apostropher par des invectives ; injurier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how invectiver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma femme ne voulait rien entendre à cette philosophie résignée, se prétendait la plus misérable des femmes, m’invectivait, réclamant toujours quelque argent, que je ne pouvais lui donner.
[…] et, surprenant un homme qui volait la ration d’un camarade, il l’invectiva et le frappa à la face.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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